(a) A wild plum (Prunus insititia), bullace; bolas fruit; bolas tre; (b) see quots. …

Mil. A device with sharp iron spikes set on the ground to cripple the feet of an advancing enemy; similar device used against trespassers, etc.; fig. a spiritual trap or pitfall. …

(a) To annul or revoke (a charter, patent, etc.), mark (a document) void; also, to have the king revoke (one's patent); (b) to make (an agreement or obligation) null and void; to mark (a document) in……

The transaction of business by a broker; brokerage. …

(a) To make notches, dents, or indentations in (something); give (something) a toothed, serrate, or jagged character or appearance; (b) fig. heckle. …

Law (a) To confirm or approve (a charter, bill, agreement, etc.), [orig. by writing on the back of the document];--also fig.; (b) to approve a reply to (a petition), to grant (a petition) under seal……

(a) A landowner and member of the gentry ranking immediately below the nobility; a freeman, a gentleman; franklein of toun, a free citizen, an owner of property in a town, a burgess; (b) as a personal……

The guest master or mistress in a religious house; also fig. …

(a) A portable bed carried by man or beasts, a litter; hors liter [see hors n. 8. (f)]; (b) a bed; also, bedding; also fig.; bed liter [see bed n. (1) 1c.]. …

(a) A dwelling house with the adjacent outbuildings and grounds; a messuage; also, the house on such an estate; (b) mes place. …

(a) The eighth day following a feast day counting the day itself, an octave; octave dai; (b) the period of eight days beginning with the feast day; (c) ? = (a) or (b); (d) a period of eight days……

A long knife or dagger. …

(a) A shed or lean-to added on to a building; a projection, sloping roof, or continuation of the eaves of a building over a window, gate, wall, etc., to provide protection against the weather; pentis……

(a) One of several plants belonging to the parsley family; esp. the common or garden parsley (Petroselinum crispum); (b) wilde perseli, one of several uncultivated plants allied to common parsley……

A peppery sauce served with meat; peverade sauce. …

(a) A pickax, a tool used for breaking up and digging up ground, breaking up walls, quarrying, etc. (often identified with other tools, such as a mattock, spade, hoe, etc.); also fig.; ?also, a tool……

(a) A young chicken; a pullet; (b) in surnames. …

(a) A cushion, bolster, or pillow; a cushion for the arm or for sitting or kneeling on; also, a hassock or footstool; (b) quishin(es cloth, a case or cover for a cushion. …

Hawk. (a) To call back (a hawk); also in sayings; (b) to make (a hawk) tame; ppl. reclaimed, tame, trained. …

(a) To drive (an enemy or opponent) back; beat back (the devil); recoilen abak (ayen-ward); (b) to retreat, draw back; recoilen ayen. …